Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the State of New South Wales and the largest city in Australia. It lies on the continent's east coast and was founded in 1788 as Port Jackson with the arrival of the British Navy's 'First Fleet' of transported convicts, and some others.[1] It has a huge natural harbour. Sydney hosted the Olympic Games in 2000. Tragically many if not most of its landmark architectural heritage from the 19th century and even the 20th has been demolished to make way for "Dallas" style soulless and hideous modernist high-rise developments.
Sydney's 2023 population is now estimated at 5,120,894. In 2016 the population was estimated to be 4.92 million. In 1950, the population of Sydney was 1,689,935. Sydney has grown by 64,323 in the last year, which represents a 1.27% annual change. These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects and represent the urban agglomeration of Sydney, which typically includes Sydney and her adjacent suburban areas. The results of the 2011 census, released in June that year, showed that that the official population of Sydney was 4,391,674. In the five years since the 2006 census it had grown by 6.6 percent.[2]
Until 1966 Australia, with few exceptions, did not permit non-Europeans to settle. However the Liberal Government effectively began the dismantling of the "White Australia policy" in that year and increased access to non-European migrants. In 1973 Labour Party Prime Minister Gough Whitlam formally and legally ended the White Australia Policy. This opened the floodgates. Sydney now has a vast Chinese, and others, population which continues to grow rapidly. Australia's population in 2016 was just under 22 million so, to put this into some perspective, roughly one in every five Australians lives in Sydney.
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- ↑ The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson [Sydney] & Norfolk Island by Arthur Phillip, London, 1789 (facsimile edition 1982: ISBN: 0-090-137880-X).
- ↑ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/sydney-population
- Maclehose, James, Picture of Sydney in New South Wales, Sydney 1839, republished in 1977 by John Ferguson, St.Ives, NSW 2075. ISBN: 0-909134-08-1.
- Roberts, Sir Stephen H., History of Australian Land Settlement 1788-1920, Cass & Co., London.
- Fisher, John, The Australians, from 1788 to Modern Times, Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1968. ISBN: 7091-0122-8.
